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Date Sent: 2007-07-18
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, July 18, 2007 |
Tonkin Gulf II and August? by Pat Buchanan -- al-Qaida seeks to attack US (seriously, a gov report)
Public Applauds Speed Camera Burning -- US interrogation techniques -- GOP pick is 'none of the above' -- Green Party bashes courts on election laws -- Ron Paul Relied on Small Donors -- Tips for Paul supporters -- Libertarians, Ron Paul and the War -- The Coercive Meddling of Government Officials -- 20.5 million classified docs in 2006 -- Bill Kristol: On the Train to Delusionville -- Risky US alliances in Iraq -- Conservative newspaper questions Bush 'stability' -- Elderly couple lose home over $1.63 tax bill -- Feds use key logger to thwart PGP, Hushmail -- World's fastest broadband connection
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News Link • Drug War
Surgeon General Soft on Science
07-17-2007
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Radley Balko
Carmona didn't mention medical marijuana in his list of grievances because Carmona isn't any more interested in actual science on the medical marijuana issue than the Bush administration is.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • World News
Public Applauds Speed Camera Burning
07-17-2007
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The Newspaper
Passing motorists applauded as a pair of speed cameras in Hampshire, UK met with a fiery end in the past week. Burning tires were used to end automated ticketing efforts. Local officials noted public approval of the vigilante efforts.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Documents reveals US interrogation techniques
07-17-2007
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Raw Story
After conducting a 10-month investigation that consisted of more than 70 interviews, as well as a detailed review of public and classified documents, Vanity Fair writer Katherine Eban delivers the fullest portrait yet of James Mitchell and Bruce Jess
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Landrieu introduces amendment to find Osama
07-17-2007
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Politico
(This is such a joke) Sen Mary L. Landrieu (D-LA) introduced an amendment to the defense authorization bill today to the "foremost objective of the US government... is to capture or kill Osama bin Laden" (Guess she's forgotten about To
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Eugenics
AP Poll: GOP pick is 'none of the above'
07-17-2007
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Miami Herald - AP
WASHINGTON -- And the leading Republican presidential candidate is ... none of the above. ( Gee,... I wonder if Ron Paul was included in the poll. Let me see,.... NOPE! :) Can you smell the bad guy's FEAR?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! )
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul: A Distributed Web 2.0 Campaign
7-16-2007
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TechCrunch
Paul is the underdog in the Presidential race, dismissed by the mainstream media and political pundits as nothing more than a kook with no hope at all. And yet if you believe online polls he will be the next President. The secret recipe for Paul’s ev
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Green Party bashes the courts on election laws
7-16-2007
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Times-Leader
After being bumped from the ballot, Romanelli, along with his attorney Larry Otter, was ordered to pay more than $80,000 in various court-related fees. Romanelli has resolved not to pay the fees, despite the threat that he could be jailed for contemp
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Unlike Other Republicans, Ron Paul Relied on Small Donors
7-16-2007
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USA Election Polls
From CFINST [see link], we can see that 47% of Ron Paul's contributions were $200 or less. The closest Republican to reach that mark was John McCain who received 17% of his contributions from the less than $200 crowd.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul fund raising plotted out over time
7-16-2007
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Students for Ron Paul
From the beginning of the campaign until the end of the 2nd fundraising quarter, Ron Paul has raised nearly $2.4 million. Notice the spikes after each debate and the steady increase over time. Note: only includes donations above $200.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Lies, More Lies, and Damn Lies
7-16-2007
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by Eric Margolis (LewRockwell)
As Americans turn increasingly against President George Bush’s calamitous war in Iraq, and revolt spreads through Republican ranks, the White House is again resorting to its tried-and-true ploy of fanning grossly inflated fears of terrorism.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Tips to Paul supporters from a guy who won't vote
7-16-2007
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Austrian Addiction
4. Keep using the internet especially YouTube.
Rather than having people speak into a camera and say "I like Ron Paul, blah blah blah." Go do something. Hang a banner, make a sign, get creative. Film it, post it, share it.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
RON PAUL HAS CROWD APPEAL
7-16-2007
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Las Vegas Sun OpEd
The crowd's thunderous approvals might be expected in Nevada, especially the rural counties with their strong Libertarian streak. But this wasn't Elko or Winnemucca. This was Paris Las Vegas on the Strip. The crowd was young, urban, and hip.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Libertarians and the War: Ron Paul doesn't speak for all of us
7-16-2007
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by Randy Barnett (Wall Street Journal)
If Americans watched the Republican presidential debate on May 15, many Americans might resist the libertarian label, because they now identify it with strident opposition to the war in Iraq, and perhaps even to the war against Islamic jihadists.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Mexican United States Relations
Reflexiones Libertarias
CAPITALISMO BUENO Y MALO
07-17-2007
Ricardo Valenzuela
MARSAUN LLC anuncia el siguiente episodio de su serie tendamos puentes no murallas. En interesante entrevista con Emilio Goicoechea, embajador mexicano en Canadá, discute desarrollo economico, inmigración, crecimiento de el norte del continente Ameri
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News Link • Iran
Tonkin Gulf II and the Guns of August?
7-16-2007
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by Pat Buchanan
Is the United States provoking war with Iran, to begin while the Congress is conveniently on its August recess? One recalls that it was in August 1964, after the Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater, that the Tonkin Gulf incident occurred.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Rumsfeld called up to testify on Tillman's death
07-17-2007
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Raw Story
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform announced Monday morning that it has invited former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other ex-Bush military officials to testify on the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Secret Societies
20.5M decisions to classify documents
07-17-2007
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AP
There were 20.5 million decisions to classify government secrets last year, and a report to the president found serious shortcomings in the process. The Information Security Oversight Office said more than 1 in 10 documents it reviewed lacked a basi
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Media: Print
Scripps shutting down Cincinnati, Kentucky papers
07-17-2007
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Reuters
E.W. Scripps Co said on Tuesday it will shut down afternoon newspapers The Cincinnati Post and the Kentucky Post by the end of the year at the conlusion of a joint operating agreement.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bill Kristol: On the Train to Delusionville
7-16-2007
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by Arianna Huffington (HuffPo)
Arianna was on a train sitting in front of Kristol, and overheard a cell phone conversation he was having with _________, and what did she hear? ;-) Kristol has now surpassed Cheney as the most intellectually dishonest member of the neocon establish
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US aid plan to alienate Taliban
07-17-2007
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The Australian
US president George W. Bush plans to pour $US750 million worth of aid into Pakistan's hostile tribal areas in a bid to wrest it away from al-Qa'ida and Taliban militants, despite fears that the funds will be impossible to oversee.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Risky US alliances in Iraq
07-17-2007
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Christian Science Monitor
In the pursuit of an elusive enemy the US loosely labels AQI(Al Qaeda in Iraq), US Green Berets and soldiers in this remote corner of Iraq have enlisted the help of a new ally that they have christened LRF, the "Legitimate Resistance Force."
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Media: Print
Scaife-owned newspaper questions Bush 'stability'
07-17-2007
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Editor and Publisher
The Pittsburgh newspaper owned by conservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife yesterday called the Bush adminstration's plans to stay the course in Iraq a "prescription for American suicide." The editorial in the Tribune-Review adde
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Elderaly couple may lose home because of $1.63 tax bill
07-17-2007
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USA Today Blog
Kermit and Dolores Atwood could lose their home because they didn't pay a $1.63 tax bill that was sent to the wrong address in 1996. The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune says the Atwoods didn't pay the property taxes on their four-bedroom house
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Drug War
Feds use key logger to thwart PGP, Hushmail
07-17-2007
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News Blog
A recent court case provides a rare glimpse into how some federal agents deal with encryption: by breaking into a suspect's home or office, implanting keystroke-logging software, and spying on what happens afar. An agent with the DEA
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Internet
World's fastest broadband connection - 40 Gbps
07-17-2007
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Slash Dot
"A 75-year-old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been given a scorching 40 Gbps internet connection - the fastest residential connection anywhere in the world. Sigbritt Lothberg is the mother of Swedish internet guru Peter Lothberg
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Israel
Ten questions for Yossi Melman
07-17-2007
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Mother Jones Blog
The Israeli author and journalist describes Israeli thinking about Iran, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the mystique of Israeli intelligence.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • TERRORISM
Report says al-qaida seeks to attack US
07-17-2007
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AP
(Must have consulted someone's gut) The terrorist network Al-Qaida will likely leverage its contacts and capabilities in Iraq to mount an attack on US soil, according to a new National Intelligence Estimate on threats to the American homeland.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
"Dysfunctional" house intelligence committee
07-17-2007
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Mother Jones Blog
Remember "Duke" Cunningham? He's the California Republican Congressman who pled guilty to bribery-related charges in late 2005, who is now serving an eight-year prison sentence. He also sat on the House Intelligence committee that
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
KPMG fraud case wilts
07-17-2007
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Los Angeles Times
A federal judge dismissed criminal charges Monday against 13 former partners of accounting giant KPMG, including 2 in Southern California, gutting what had been billed as the largest tax fraud case in US history. The ex-partners and other defendents
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush: US seeks to restart Mideast talks
07-17-2007
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Earth Times
US President George Bush promised more US aid to the Palestinian Authority(more stealing from taxpayers) and called for a fall Middle East summit to jumpstart(his poll numbers) the peace process. US Sec of State Condoleezza Rice would convene
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Jean Carbonneau
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